Visit us at stand NH5021st – 23rd Jan 2026, Excel, London
Bett 2026
Visit us at stand NH5021st – 23rd Jan 2026, Excel, London
Come and join us at Bett and see what transformational learning looks like. Whether it’s creating a musical masterpiece on a Mac. Exploring the building blocks of coding to foster critical thinking or finding out how to easily deploy Apple in your school, we’ve got the answers.
We will be hosting many sessions over the course of Bett, both on our stand and across various theatres, covering a wide range of themes to help you bring innovation to your establishment.
So we’d love you to join us for a complimentary refreshment and nibbles, our exciting presentations and inspiring teacher training.
Come and join us at Bett and see what transformational learning looks like. Whether it’s creating a musical masterpiece on a Mac, exploring the building blocks of coding or finding out how to easily deploy Apple in your organisation, we’ve got the answers.
We will be hosting many sessions over the course of Bett, both on our stand and across various theatres, covering a wide range of themes to help you bring innovation to your establishment.
So we’d love you to join us for a complimentary refreshment and nibbles, our exciting presentations and inspiring teacher training.
Theatre Schedule on stand NH50
Wednesday 21st January
Thursday 22nd January
Friday 23rd January
10:30 – Accessibilty on iPad
11:00 – AR in the Classroom
11:30 – Visual Storytelling with iPad
12:00 – Quizzing
12:45 – Ozobot and iPad
13:15 – Handwriting with iPad
14:00 – ADS: Sandfield Primary School
15:30 – AI to support teachers
16:00 – Podcasting on iPad
16:30 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
10:30 – Accessibility on iPad
Learning made inclusive with iPad
Description
In this session we will look at how iPad can support all learners by exploring the built-in accessibility features. We will explore the key tools that can be used to support the needs of many learners in school, through to some specific SEN support features, along with real world examples of how, and when we might use these features.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
11:00 – AR in the Classroom
Augmented Reality: Bring your curriculum to life
Description
Augmented Reality tools are becoming more and more engaging in the classroom. This session will explore some of the resources available, including the Merge Cube, and also look at classroom projects where the children can create their own AR outcomes, using tools such as Halo AR.
Apps used: Merge Cube and Halo AR.
Suitable for: KS1 and KS2.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
11:00 – Visual Storytelling with iPad
Improve student engagement with visual story telling
Description
iPad offers a wide range of tools to support visual storytelling. This session will explore a range of tools which can help pupils to tell individual and engaging stories including iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro.
Apps used: iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
12:00 – Quizzing
Improve student retention with interactive quizzing
Description
There are some exciting quizzing options available from using pre-made resources, to working with quizzing tools with AI features to help design and create quizzes, matched to the needs of your learners. We’ll explore some of the tools and how we might use them in the classroom environment.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
12:45 – Ozobot and iPad
Inspire your students with Ozobot coding
Description
Ozobot is a small but powerful piece of coding hardware that offers pupils unlimited opportunities. Beginning with screen free coding, pupils can develop and apply their understanding of code using iPad and the Ozobot app to complete a range of exciting and complex coding projects.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
13:15 – Handwriting with iPad
A powerful tool for improving handwriting.
Description Using the Apple Pencil, the iPad becomes a great tool to develop handwriting skills in the classroom. Here we will explore some of the ways in which the Apple Pencil can be used to evidence learning in apps such as Pages and Keynote, as well as diving into Freeform, which is a powerful collaborative tool for the classroom.
Apps used: Pages, Keynote and Freeform.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
14:00 – ADS: Sandfield Primary School
Content coming soon.
Presenter – Sandfield Primary School
Content coming soon.
15:00 – AI to support teachers
Artificial Intelligence: The key to efficiency
Description
AI tools are becoming increasingly common, and schools have access to various large language models that can be used to effectively support planning and save time. This session will look at creating useful prompts and how we can use these tools to create things like lesson plan ideas, medium term plans and even help us to decipher multipage policy documents.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
16:00 – Podcasting on iPad
Unleash your students’ creativity with iPad.
Description
This session will investigate the use of GarageBand to support literacy in the classroom, and look at how we focus on scripting content using Pages, and turn this in to a Podcast or a radio show using the built in recording and multi-track features. We will also explore the effects to bring the stories to life, and adding sound effects to finish the project.
Apps used: Pages and GarageBand.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
16:30 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
Coding made simple
Description
Swift Playgrounds is a fantastic resource for teaching coding in the classroom, and this session will explore the tools and supporting resources available to us. It will focus on moving on from the basics of coding to look at some of the practical tasks we can engage children with so that they are creating real outcomes with code.
Suitable for: KS2 and KS3
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
10:30 – AI to support teachers
11:00 – Accessibility on iPad
11:30 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
12:00 – Effective classroom management with Apple Classroom
12:30 – Podcasting on iPad
13:00 – Visual storytelling with iPad
13:30 – Ozobot and iPad
14:00 – Developing Oracy with iPad
14:30 - AR in the Classroom
15:00 – Handwriting with iPad
16:00 – Quizzing
16:30 – AI to support teachers
10:30 – AI to support teachers
Artificial Intelligence: the key to efficiency
Description
AI tools are becoming increasingly common, and schools have access to various large language models that can be used to effectively support planning and save time. This session will look at creating useful prompts and how we can use these tools to create things like lesson plan ideas, medium term plans and even help us to decipher multipage policy documents.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
11:00 – Accessibility on iPad
Learning made inclusive with iPad
Description
In this session we will look at how iPad can support all learners by exploring the built-in accessibility features. We will explore the key tools that can be used to support the needs of many learners in school, through to some specific SEN support features, along with real world examples of how, and when we might use these features.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
11:00 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
Coding made simple
Description
Swift Playgrounds is a fantastic resource for teaching coding in the classroom, and this session will explore the tools and supporting resources available to us. It will focus on moving on from the basics of coding to look at some of the practical tasks we can engage children with so that they are creating real outcomes with code.
Suitable for: KS2 and KS3.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
12:00 – Effective classroom management with Apple Classroom
Simplified classroom management
Description
Apple Classroom is a powerful tool to help teachers manage devices in their lessons quickly and easily. Exploring a range of Apple Classroom’s powerful features and built-in tools, this session is a must see for teachers using iPad in their daily teaching.
Suitable for KS2 and KS3.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
12:30 – Podcasting on iPad
Augmented Reality: get a new perspective on your design
Description This session will investigate the use of GarageBand to support literacy in the classroom, and look at how we focus on scripting content using Pages, and turn this into a Podcast or a radio show using the built in recording and multi-track features. We will also explore the effects to bring the stories to life, and add sound effects to finish the project.
Apps used: Pages and GarageBand.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
13:00 – Visual Storytelling with iPad
Improve student engagement with visual storytelling
Description
iPad offers a wide range of tools to support visual storytelling. This session will explore a range of tools which can help pupils to tell individual and engaging stories including iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro.
Apps used: iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
13:30 – Ozobot and iPad
Inspire your students with Ozobot coding
Description
Ozobot is a small but powerful piece of coding hardware that offers pupils unlimited opportunities. Beginning with screen free coding, pupils can develop and apply their understanding of code using iPad and the Ozobot app to complete a range of exciting and complex coding projects.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
14:00 – Developing Oracy with iPad
Raise oracy in your classroom with iPad
Description
The wide range of tools offered on iPad can support pupils’ development of Oracy. This session will explore a range of practical approaches to help students use iPad to develop their Oracy across a range of curriculum subjects.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
14:30 – AR in the Classroom
Augmented Reality: Bring your curriculum to life
Description
Augmented Reality tools are becoming more and more engaging in the classroom. This session will explore some of the resources available, including the Merge Cube, and also look at classroom projects where the children can create their own AR outcomes, using tools such as Halo AR.
Apps used: Merge Cube and Halo AR
Suitable for: KS1 and KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
15:00 – Handwriting with iPad
A powerful tool for improving handwriting
Description
Using the Apple Pencil, the iPad becomes a great tool to develop handwriting skills in the classroom. Here we will explore some of the ways in which the Apple Pencil can be used to evidence learning in apps such as Pages and Keynote, as well as diving into Freeform, which is a powerful collaborative tool for the classroom.
Apps used: Pages, Keynote and Freeform.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
16:00 – Quizzing
Improve student retention with interactive quizzing
Description
There are some exciting quizzing options available from using pre-made resources, to working with quizzing tools with AI features to help design and create quizzes, matched to the needs of your learners. We’ll explore some of the tools and how we might use them in the classroom environment.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
16:30 – AI to support teachers
Artificial Intelligence: The key to efficiency
Description
AI tools are becoming increasingly common, and schools have access to various large language models that can be used to effectively support planning and save time. This session will look at creating useful prompts and how we can use these tools to create things like lesson plan ideas, medium term plans and even help us to decipher multipage policy documents.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
10:30 – Visual storytelling with iPad
11:00 – Developing Oracy with iPad
11:30 – RGS Accessibility in Action: Top Tips from Student Digital Leaders
12:00 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
12:30 – Effective classroom management with Apple Classroom
13:00 – Ozobot and iPad
13:30 – Handwriting with iPad
14:00 – AI to support teachers
14:30 - AR in the Classroom
15:00 – Accessibility on iPad
16:00 – Podcasting on iPad
16:30 – Quizzing
10:30 – Visual Storytelling with iPad
Improve student engagement with visual storytelling
Description
iPad offers a wide range of tools to support visual storytelling. This session will explore a range of tools which can help pupils to tell individual and engaging stories including iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro.
Apps used: iMovie, Keynote and Final Cut Pro.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
11:00 – Developing Oracy with iPad
Raise Oracy in your classroom with iPad
Description
The wide range of tools offered on iPad can support pupils’ development of Oracy. This session will explore a range of practical approaches to help students use iPad to develop their Oracy across a range of curriculum subjects.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
11:30 – RGS Accessibility in Action: Top Tips from Student Digital Leaders
The impact of accessible learning
Description
Join us to gain a unique, pupil-driven perspective on digital accessibility, through this inspiring showcase by RGS students. The students will demonstrate the iPad accessibility features they frequently use to support learning and collaboration. This session will illustrate the impact of iPad’s accessibility features on driving student agency and digital leadership at RGS schools.
Presenter – RGS Worcester Family of Schools
RGS is a family of four leading independent schools committed to providing exceptional education across Worcester and the West Midlands to pupils aged 2-18 years. RGS’ forward thinking approach and strong commitment to inclusive learning and digital leadership, have led to their recognition as an Apple Distinguished School, making them an excellent example for innovative 21st century learning.
12:00 – Coding with Swift Playgrounds
Coding made simple
Description
Swift Playgrounds is a fantastic resource for teaching coding in the classroom, and this session will explore the tools and supporting resources available to us. It will focus on moving on from the basics of coding to look at some of the practical tasks we can engage children with so that they are creating real outcomes with code.
Suitable for: KS2 and KS3.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
12:30 – Effective classroom management with Apple Classroom
Simplified classroom management
Description
Apple Classroom is a powerful tool to help teachers manage devices in their lessons quickly and easily. Exploring a range of Apple Classroom’s powerful features and built-in tools, this session is a must see for teachers using iPad in their daily teaching.
Suitable for KS2 and KS3.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
13:00 – Ozobot and iPad
Inspire your students with Ozobot coding
Description
Ozobot is a small but powerful piece of coding hardware that offers pupils unlimited opportunities. Beginning with screen free coding, pupils can develop and apply their understanding of code using iPad and the Ozobot app to complete a range of exciting and complex coding projects.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
13:30 – Handwriting with iPad
A powerful tool for improving handwriting
Description
Using the Apple Pencil, the iPad becomes a great tool to develop handwriting skills in the classroom. Here we will explore some of the ways in which the Apple Pencil can be used to evidence learning in apps such as Pages and Keynote, as well as diving into Freeform, which is a powerful collaborative tool for the classroom.
Apps used: Pages, Keynote and Freeform.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
14:00 – AI to support teachers
Artificial Intelligence: the key to efficiency
Description
AI tools are becoming increasingly common, and schools have access to various large language models that can be used to effectively support planning and save time. This session will look at creating useful prompts and how we can use these tools to create things like lesson plan ideas, medium term plans and even help us to decipher multipage policy documents.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
14:30 – AR in the Classroom
Augmented Reality: Bring your curriculum to life
Description
Augmented Reality tools are becoming more and more engaging in the classroom. This session will explore some of the resources available, including the Merge Cube, and also look at classroom projects where the children can create their own AR outcomes, using tools such as Halo AR.
Apps used: Merge Cube and Halo AR
Suitable for: KS1 and KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
15:00 – Accessibility on iPad
Learning made inclusive with iPad
Description
In this session we will look at how iPad can support all learners by exploring the built-in accessibility features. We will explore the key tools that can be used to support the needs of many learners in school, through to some specific SEN support features, along with real world examples of how, and when we might use these features.
Suitable for: KS1-4.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
16:00 – Podcasting on iPad
Augmented Reality: get a new perspective on your design
Description This session will investigate the use of GarageBand to support literacy in the classroom, and look at how we focus on scripting content using Pages, and turn this into a Podcast or a radio show using the built in recording and multi-track features. We will also explore the effects to bring the stories to life, and add sound effects to finish the project.
Apps used: Pages and GarageBand.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
16:00 – Quizzing
Improve student retention with interactive quizzing
Description
There are some exciting quizzing options available from using pre-made resources, to working with quizzing tools with AI features to help design and create quizzes, matched to the needs of your learners. We’ll explore some of the tools and how we might use them in the classroom environment.
Suitable for: KS2
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
Find us around Bett
Wednesday 21st January
Thursday 22nd January
Friday 23rd January
14:00 – Maximising SEND support with Apple Accessibility
15:30 – Listen Up! Take podcasting to the next level with iPad
Maximising SEND support with Apple Accessibility
14:00 – SEND Theatre
Description
This session will explore the ways in which Apple’s Accessibility features can be applied in the classroom to support a wide range of SEND types to offer students greater support and independence in the classroom. Throughout the session, Accessibility features will be demonstrated and a range of examples given to how they can be applied to effectively remove barriers for SEND pupils. This session is aimed at teachers, leaders and technical staff who want to know more about the powerful opportunities and support that Apple’s accessibility tools offer. The session promises to give staff simple and practical approaches to supporting SEND which they can apply immediately back in school.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
Listen Up! Take podcasting to the next level with iPad
15:30 – Tech User Lab
Description
The growing popularity of Podcasting is spreading to the classroom, as it supports topic knowledge, literacy elements and key aspects of the computing curriculum. This session will focus on creating a Podcast in GarageBand, but taking it to the next level by making use of vocal effects, loops (to create original jingles) and automating the mix and final outcome. This session will provide quick wins and provide practical next steps for attendees. Suitable for primary and secondary school (KS2-4) teachers.
Presenter – David Kirtlan
A teacher with over 20 years classroom teaching, leadership and management experience. His classroom has changed in the last few years, and his students are now teachers and other educationalists, but teaching and learning is at the core of everything he does. David is one of the UK’s most popular education consultants, and one of the UK’s foremost music education specialists, but his focus remains on cross curricular teaching and learning.
The Future of Mac Administration
12:00 – Tech in Action Theatre
Description
Driven by rapid innovation, Apple’s expanding ecosystem is reshaping modern IT operations and redefining what effective Mac management looks like. In this session, we’ll explore emerging trends in automation, identity-driven management, zero-touch deployment, and AI-powered support workflows that are redefining what modern Mac administration can be. Whether you’re enhancing security posture, or streamlining device lifecycle management, this talk will reveal the strategies and tools that will empower IT teams to stay ahead of change and deliver a seamless, intuitive user experience—now and into the future.
Presenter – Keith Beeby
Keith Beeby is Albion’s Technical Director, bringing decades of hands-on experience in deploying, supporting, and managing Applebased technology ecosystems across schools, colleges, and educational institutions throughout the UK. Over his career, Keith has been instrumental in helping educators harness the full potential of iPad and Mac solutions, ensuring seamless integration into teaching and learning environments. His expertise spans device management, infrastructure planning, and digital strategy, all tailored to meet the evolving needs of modern classrooms. Passionate about empowering both teachers and learners, Keith combines deep technical insight with a genuine commitment to improving educational outcomes through technology.
Augmented reality: Bring learning to life with iPad
11:20 – Tech in Action Theatre
Description
Explore how augmented reality (AR) tools on iPad are becoming ever more engaging and powerful.
This session delves into a variety of apps and resources, showcasing practical ways to integrate AR into the classroom. You’ll also learn about creative tools that enable children to design and build their own AR projects, encouraging hands-on learning and imagination. Suitable for teachers and pupils of KS1 and KS2, this session will leave you inspired with fresh ideas to make learning more interactive and immersive.
Presenter – David Maguire
David has over 20 years of experience in education including 9 as a Headteacher. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist he works with schools across the UK to help them unlock the power and potential of technology to support high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for students. David’s particular interests lie in accessibility and creativity with technology.
We are the Apple experts, talk to us about your school.
• What is the Albion Education Subscription Program? • How to make the best use of Mobile Device Management? • What is the Apple School Manager? • How do we implement Volume Purchasing Programme? • Are classroom sets the best way to start? • How do we integrate Mac into active directory? • Is our school ready for mass iPad deployment?
• What Wi-Fi system is best for our school? • Can you help finance our technology deployment? • How do we manage documents for teachers and students? • How do we support teacher professional development? • Is training from Apple Professional Learning specialists important? • Can training be structured to fit around the school day? • What support can you expect from Apple certified technicians?
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The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
